26'1.1499" For A String Player

Jud Yalkut 

1973, 42 min, color, sound

This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For String Player. In this extraordinary performance, which is manipulated and synthesized by Yalkut, Paik and Moorman play Cage's score on a collection of "instruments" that include a pistol, a dish of mushrooms, balloons, a practice aerial bomb, and a telephone call to President Nixon.

Light Display: Color

Jud Yalkut

2002, 7 min, color, silent

Yalkut creates a poetic homage to Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's pioneering 1930 kinetic sculpture Light-Space Modulator, which was reconstructed at the Howard Wise Gallery, New York, in 1970. Yalkut's silent Light Display: Color combines processed analogue and digital imagery derived from the original 16mm film that he shot at the gallery.

Video Synthesizer and "TV Cello" Collectibles

Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik

1965-71, 23:25 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

This restored collection of rare early collaborative works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient. Recorded between 1965 and 1971, these "video-films" reveal insights into the evolution of Paik's work in video, performance and installation, and...

Video-Film Concert

Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut

1966-72, 1992, 34:50 min, b&w and color, sound, 16 mm film on video

This restored collection of rare early collaborative works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient. Recorded between 1967 and 1972, these playful and improvisational "video-films" reveal insights into the evolution of Paik's work in video, performance and installation.